Have a read of https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-perspective
Has a good overview on what this means for smartos/sdc. On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:07 PM, John Burwell <[email protected]> wrote: > It sounds more like Samsung is already a big customer of Joyent and is > making a strategic move to secure their access to Joyent's talent and > infrastructure. Perhaps even exclusively, as far as licensing permits. I'd > be surprised if this has anything to do with mobile beyond reducing > Samsung's dependence on cloud providers who otherwise compete with Samsung > in the mobile space. If they wanted Illumos on mobile, there are cheaper > ways to have done that. Samsung has wide-ranging interests, though, > including consumer cloud services and enterprise verticals, so I imagine > this has more to do with other operations. > > As an aside, by open-sourcing SDC in addition to SmartOS, Joyent at least > helped ensure that the community wouldn't lose that or SmartOS in an > acquisition. It would be wild to speculate on Joyent's foresight with > respect to control over SmartOS and SDC IP, but I'm grateful they opened it > up when they did, which is to say, while they could. > > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Miles Fidelman < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> That's my initial reaction as well, though it really depends on what >> Samsung has in mind for Joyent, and how independent it will be. >> >> It could be that they're looking at Illumos as an alternative to Android >> for their smartphones. If so, >> >> - their smartphone software is a case of "allmost, but not quite" - I've >> been using the Samsung Note for years, and their software has interesting >> functionality, but key things tend to be missing, and there are weird bugs >> (particularly when it comes to Mac syncing) -- I'd be a bit worried about >> both their overall management of software development/deployment/support, >> and that a focus on mobile will be at the expense of server-side >> applications >> >> - if they're trying to make a data center play, then this might be a good >> thing - depending on how well they play in the open source ecosystem (where >> they don't seem to have much of a footprint to date) >> >> Meanwhile, I think I'm happy that I'm still in the experimental phase >> with Illumos distros, and still using Linux for operational servers. >> >> Miles Fidelman >> >> On 6/16/16 3:32 PM, Micky wrote: >> >> I think it'll be a disaster for SmartOS ecosystem. >> >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Clay Eden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent >>> >>> Anyone else have a thought? I'm assuming this is going to help the >>> ecosystem with resources, and trickle down to Illumos. >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks, >>> Clay Eden >>> >> >> >> -- >> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. >> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra >> >> *smartos-discuss* | Archives >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/27750020-92655a4d> | >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> >> > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/22984186-fca9c571> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
